'He lights up the room wherever he goes': Aussie drowns in Hawaii trying to save mate

An Australian tourist has drowned off Hawaii's Kauai island while trying to rescue his best mate who was knocked into the ocean by a large wave.

Adam Griffiths, who moved from Australia to the US and lived in San Francisco where he was the manager of a mobile app company, was holidaying on Kauai with his fiancee, Jennifer Kwong, and their friend, Brian Baker.